point-free using String.prototype.concat() not working as expected

Question

I got an unexpected behavior when I try to concat two strings in a point-free style:

    const namespace = "ns-";
    const names = ['bar','foo', 'baz'];
    
    names.map((i) => namespace.concat(i)) // ok
    names.map(namespace.concat) // ERROR: String.prototype.concat called on null or undefined

I thought I could omit the parameter on function call since AFAIK a => fn(a) is the same as calling fn . But in the case of using concat() it is not working.

Obviously, I'm missing something on the language, but I don't know what it is

Answer 1

You can't do this, as the map function passes a value out of it, where js thinks 'namespace' is the parameter. So js is call.concat on nothing.